U.S. Slashes Citizenship Renunciation Fee by 80 Percent

The U.S. State Department has dramatically cut the fee to renounce American citizenship from $2,350 to $450, an 80 percent reduction that takes effect April 13, 2026. The move reverses a 2014 fee hike that made the U.S. charge the world's highest expatriation cost, drawing years of criticism for creating barriers to exercising the constitutional right to change nationality. Read more about this...